Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the InteriorU.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 |
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... TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO , Santa Fé , September 13 , 1887 . SIR : I have the honor to transmit herewith , in response to your instructions of August 13 , my annual report of the general condition of this Territory , in the respects and ...
... TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO , Santa Fé , September 13 , 1887 . SIR : I have the honor to transmit herewith , in response to your instructions of August 13 , my annual report of the general condition of this Territory , in the respects and ...
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... Territory with a view to construction , but nothing further has yet been accomplished . The Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fé is also constructing through the Panhandle of Texas towards the eastern border of New Mexico , pre- paratory to ...
... Territory with a view to construction , but nothing further has yet been accomplished . The Atchison , Topeka and Santa Fé is also constructing through the Panhandle of Texas towards the eastern border of New Mexico , pre- paratory to ...
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... Territory . There are , in addition to sheep and cattle , 91,173 other domestic animals , assessed at $ 1,278,147 . The cattle industry of this Territory is assuming radically changed conditions from those that have heretofore ...
... Territory . There are , in addition to sheep and cattle , 91,173 other domestic animals , assessed at $ 1,278,147 . The cattle industry of this Territory is assuming radically changed conditions from those that have heretofore ...
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... Territory during the past year . There is a growing appreciation among the native people of the necessity and advantages of acquiring an education in the English language and in the American methods of thought and of business and ...
... Territory during the past year . There is a growing appreciation among the native people of the necessity and advantages of acquiring an education in the English language and in the American methods of thought and of business and ...
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... Territory . SCHOOL LANDS . The usual provision for school lands applies to this Territory , as to all others . But they being in no sense the property of the Territory , or under its jurisdiction , no steps have been taken or can be ...
... Territory . SCHOOL LANDS . The usual provision for school lands applies to this Territory , as to all others . But they being in no sense the property of the Territory , or under its jurisdiction , no steps have been taken or can be ...
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Page 59 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 61 - That the creation of any obstruction, not affirmatively authorized by law, to the navigable capacity of any waters in respect of which the United States has jurisdiction, is hereby prohibited.
Page 62 - The very considerations which judges most rarely mention, and always with an apology, are the secret root from which the law draws all the juices of life. I mean, of course, considerations of what is expedient for the community concerned.
Page 58 - If, for the purpose of making the said rivers navigable, or for maintaining them in such state, it should be necessary or advantageous to establish any tax or contribution, this shall not be done without the consent of both governments. The stipulations contained in the present article shall not impair the territorial rights of either republic within its established limits.
Page 62 - Every important principle which is developed by litigation is in fact and at bottom the result of more or less definitely understood views of public policy; most generally, to be sure, under our practice and traditions, the unconscious result of instinctive preferences and inarticulate convictions but none the less traceable to views of public policy in the last analysis.
Page 118 - The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch.
Page 11 - As a conclusion of law the court found that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until the...
Page 118 - ... charge of the agent of such mine, and in all mines the doors used in assisting or directing the ventilation of the mine shall be so hung and adjusted that they will close themselves or be supplied with springs or pulleys so that they...
Page 61 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.